Dr Giorgia Alù has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests range from nineteenth-century Italian cultural history to comparative literature and visual studies.

Dr Francesco Borghesi’s research interests include: medieval and Renaissance philosophy; Renaissance humanism (civic and religious); history of philosophy; literature, philosophy and theology of the middle ages and the early modern period; history of religious and political thought; textual bibliography, textual criticism and scholarly editing; digital philology; historiography; history of the classical tradition.

The chair of the department of Japanese Studies, Dr Yasuko Claremont, draws on methods associated with literary theories, comparative literature studies and social-history in her cross-disciplinary research on modern Japanese literature, comparative literature and Australian studies. Dr Claremont is currently working on a Japanese journal, Nyonin geijutsu (Women’s Arts, 1928-1932), and she is organizing a 2-day international workshop on this journal at the University of Sydney on 11-12 February 2010.

Dr Mats Karlsson’s research interests include: modern and contemporary Japanese and comparative literature, Japanese film history, Japanese modern society from a cross-disciplinary cultural studies perspective. .

Dr Vek Lewis’s research interests include: cultural and moral spatialities, human movement, geopolitics and the work of institutions in regulating peoples’ lives in Latin America and Latino/a USA, especially around migration, border studies, sexual and ethnic minorities. Both ethnography and discourse analysis form the basis of his research methodologies around these questions.

Dr Fernanda Peñaloza joined the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies after eight years living in the UK, where she completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Exeter, and then lectured in Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester for four years.
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Dr Suter’s main research interest is in modern Japanese literature and comparative literature. Her first book, The Japanization of Modernity, focuses on contemporary Japanese writer Murakami Haruki, particularly on his role as a cultural mediator between Japan and the United States.

International and Comparative Literary Studies Program

Summary

Key research strengths are as follows: Modern literature and literary modernism in and across the countries and cultures named above (including North America and Australia), Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque literature, Transcultural and translation studies, Literary theories and genres across cultures, Literature and performance, Comparative poetics, Literature and other arts, Literature and cinema, including film adapations, Cinema and world stars, Crosscultural sociology and politics of literature, Literature, history, and memory, Literature and nationalism, Literary hoaxes, Cultural and religious identities in literature, Popular literature and popular culture, Postcoloniality, migration and diaspora, Literature, gender and feminist thought, Gay, lesbian and queer literature and cinema, Creativity and the process of writing

Research Location

Program Type

Masters/PHD

Synopsis

In a globalised, diverse and highly mobile world, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary education and knowledge are essential requirements if you wish to participate actively in the life of the future global community. ICLS is a vibrant and innovative interdisciplinary program involving lecturers from eleven different departments within the School of Languages and Cultures and the Department of English in the School of Letters, Art and Media. Research in International and Comparative Literary Studies will equip you with cross-literary, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary knowledge. The ways that our societies and cultures are interlinked will genuinely surprise you!